The Sandia/Arzamas-16 Magazine-to-Magazine Remote Monitoring Field Trial

Introduction Sandia National Laboratories and the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - All Russian Research Institute for Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) (also known as Arzamas-16) have collaborated on ways to assure the highest standards of safety, security, and international accountability of fissile material. For these collaborations, sensors and information technologies have been identified as important in reaching these standards in a cost-effective manner. This includes systems used to reduce the need for human access to the material, reduce radiation exposure, provide prompt safety related information, and provide continuous international accountability information while reducing the need for intrusive, on-site visits. Specifically, Sandia and VNIIEF have established a series of remote monitoring field trials to provide a mechanism for joint research and development on storage monitoring systems. These efforts consist of the \"Container-to-Container\", \"Magazine-to-Magazine\", and \"Facility-to-Facility\" field trials and are summarized in figure 1 below.